Those of Wendish descent recognize a gender that holds both masculine and feminine fully and permanently — not as a mixture that dilutes either, but as a stable wholeness in which both are present and undiminished simultaneously. The word itself comes from the Wendish tongue, meaning simply “of two natures,” and the Wends used it without ceremony because they saw nothing remarkable in the fact of it — only in the person who carried it. Where the Faith understands Heliac and Selenic as the two great poles of cosmic order, the Wends understood that some people are not positioned at one pole or the other but contain both in full, the way a forest contains both the oak and the elm without either being less than itself. This is not a blending, nor a compromise — it is a wholeness the single-natured do not possess. The Wends have always understood that some people are simply built larger than the binary allows.